February - keeping the momentum going

 I joined in on Friday night with the girls from Friday Night with Friends hosted by Chez ..... 

I was wanting to keep working on the knitted jacket I'm making as I have a bit of a time line I'm trying to stick to ..... This project is my "Owl" in the Group over on Ravelry that I'm playing along with and so I need to get to the 50% mark by the end of February ...... its proven to take a bit more time than other knitted items I've made for a while and it has a tighter tension, so the fingers get a bit sore ......... so to break it up - I also did a bit of crochet adding more blocks to my window covering

I've been having to take on apprentice work to help Pete with the carport project ...... all was going
rather well  ........ its a little bigger than I'd expected but with the heat we get here this will make a huge difference ....

I've had to help with the measuring and then standing on one of the ladders holding one end of the beams while he gets the other side in and bolted down .......

One more beam to go .... of course it didn't fit like all the others - just needed a tiny bit cut off the end ......

And then before he got to cut it ..... the disk on the grinder broke - thankfully he has only used the

4inch grinder since the big accident with the 9inch one in Queensland ....... still ....... he managed to slice his wrist - the one that has a huge lump from the way a broken bone was set in another life time - we are used to it looking like a massive lump but it sure threw the hospital staff into a frenzy!

We headed to the hospital at 10.30 to just get a couple of stitches ....... they thought he might have chipped the bone so it was then a further wait for the xray person to arrive (after waiting 1.5hrs for the doctor to come!!!) and then photos and calls to the orthopaedic surgeon in case he had to go for a surgical washout (prevention for bone infection if he had chipped the bone - thankfully he didn't) but the ortho suggested a back slab be put on for a week to minimize movement ......

I had dropped Lucy to friends when I thought we might have to head to Wang and be gone for hours on end - so we called back in and had some recovery drinks and debrief lol

The Chookshed Challenge is Number 10 for February and I'm pretty lucky with my list since I've left it open to any project for both knitting and sewing - so I'll be working on Kore - my knitted jacket and the crochet window covering for the yarn work and for the sewing - I'm working on a few things which I'll show you next time.

Until then

Hugs Sharm

Heat Wave

 

We are in the midst of a heat wave here with daytime temps in the 40s celcius ..... the other day it got to 46 degrees!  We could sure use some rain which is crazy since the north of the country is in flood! Great sunrises, and its always nice to walk down to the river early in the morning and get home before the heat builds up.

Look closely and you can see the kangaroos having a feed

Here we are in Feb but first let me do a quick recap of my projects from January since I had a few finishes which is something to celebrate and I'll take all the positives I can this year!

Being part of a group on Ravelry which has various challenges during the month to gain "house points" has helped get a quite a few of these smaller projects done - especially the dishcloths - I never seem to have enough made on hand as I give them away as gifts and thankyous, ensure both ourselves and our daughter have sufficient on hand and now has a little shop that has asked for some.  The sewing room got a clean up 

Work has progressed on the crocheted squares to make the window covering for the sewing room

And I made more progress on the Scrub Stitchin project ...... and I did work out what to do with my Number Chookshed Challenge project but it is awaiting material to get it to the next stage so you will have to wait for photos of that one

My medal arrived showing the 1483.11kms I managed to walk during 2024.  I'm hoping to improve on this for '25.  Note that this is not daily steps but dedicated logged walks!  Lucy should have one as well lol

So that's a wrap for January ........ And now its February ...... Today being Dads birthday which has been a little sad but also happy since he really had not wanted to be celebrating another birthday - instead he celebrates in Heaven .

Today was Apron making ........  My own pattern that I have used for years ..... The newspaper pattern I cut out is yellow with age and this is the 3rd one I think I had to renew .... the date on the newspaper is from 2012 lol

Until next time, Hugs and Prayers to you all my friends - May Gods Blessings be upon you.

Hugs Sharm